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The Siemens Tennis Park's plans for expanding their facility hit a snag with the district committee's recent rejection. Here's why:
Over in the 'hood of Obersendling, the district committee #19 unanimously slammed the brakes on three new tennis courts at Siemens Park. The building application put forth by the Munich South Tennis and Sports Club (STC) aims to expand the facility with fencing and nighttime lighting. But here's the catch—the proposed expansion would occupy an arable land southeast of the existing courts, totaling approximately 1992 square meters.
Why'd the plan get axed? The Building Authority (BA) refused the project, categorizing the requested zones as outside the Siemens Sports Park and within the landscape protection area. Alexander Aichwalder (Greens), the subcommittee's chairman for building and planning, explained the decision to Hallo like this: "I mean, come on, you can't seal up nearly 2000 square meters in a landscape protection area and stick up floodlights."
Tennis Expansion: No Swipe Right for the Club
Here's another kicker: Unlike the Siemens Sports Park, the area is zoned as a general green space in the land use plan, which prohibits fixed construction and urges it to be left untouched in its natural state or to be planted with greenery. It's an area outside the building plan scope, used primarily for agriculture. "The proposed compensation area of 600 square meters, intended to replace the 1992 square meters for expansion, wouldn't cut it," Aichwalder added.
To find out what the STC had to say about its expansion plans, Hallo caught up with club manager Oliver Prosi. "The STC's the biggest tennis club in Bavaria, with over 1600 members. We need those additional courts to keep up, 'cause our membership has doubled since 2021," Prosi explained. Since 1975, the club's been renting nine courts from a farmer at Garatshausener Strasse, and they thought another three wouldn't harm the landscape one bit. "You wanna fight nature, go ahead," Prosi counters. The club's ready to sign up for the land expansion and compensation lease with the farmer.
For now, it's up to the local building commission to figure out the next steps in the process.
Lilian S. Wilke
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The proposed expansion of the Munich South Tennis and Sports Club, aiming to add three new tennis courts, has been met with opposition due to the plans encroaching on an arable land in a landscape protection area.
Despite the club's argument that the additional courts are necessary to cater to their growing membership, the building authority has categorized the requested zones as outside the Siemens Sports Park and within the landscape protection area, making the expansion unfeasible.
